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Tulsa World reports: At Muskogee town hall, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., called President Obama a friend but cautioned that he was “perilously close” to meeting the Constitutional standard for impeachment.

Ted Cruz was asked why Obama has not been impeached. He gave the realistic answer: Because we don't have the votes.

The article then discussed that impeachment was a "political" measure

, the commission of impeachable offenses is of far less moment than the lack of a political appetite.

Every political choice has consequences. The Framers intended impeachment as the ultimate accountability. Without at least the credible threat of it, there is no realistic checking of a president who seems increasingly disposed to abuse his awesome powers,

I guess this is the answer to the question I've asked a couple of times ... impeachment is the only thing that could put a check on an executive who exceeds the Constitutional executive powers, but impeachment requires strong convictions on the part of the Congress who would take the step of impeachment.

I cannot imagine what it would take for Congress to impeach Obama. Perhaps had he written a letter to Lois Lerner telling her to target Tea Party groups with the IRS, that might have done it. If anyone could prove he actually gave an order to "stand down" at Benghazi, that might cause enough of an uproar to do it. I cannot imagine that any such proof will ever be available.

He will finish his term, and go on to make a bazillion dollars in honorariums (like the Clintons). If we are very unfortunate, some D POTUS will appoint him to the Supreme Court. History will be his judge. History will also judge those who allowed his use of executive power in the ways he has used it.

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I guess this is the answer to the question I've asked a couple of times ... impeachment is the only thing that could put a check on an executive who exceeds the Constitutional executive powers, but impeachment requires strong convictions on the part of the Congress who would take the step of impeachment.

I cannot imagine what it would take for Congress to impeach Obama. Perhaps had he written a letter to Lois Lerner telling her to target Tea Party groups with the IRS, that might have done it. If anyone could prove he actually gave an order to "stand down" at Benghazi, that might cause enough of an uproar to do it. I cannot imagine that any such proof will ever be available.

He will finish his term, and go on to make a bazillion dollars in honorariums (like the Clintons). If we are very unfortunate, some D POTUS will appoint him to the Supreme Court. History will be his judge. History will also judge those who allowed his use of executive power in the ways he has used it.

Impeaching Obama is about like trying to take a child away from it's biological mother in Oklahoma..........you would have to prove that they were axe murders before you would have a chance.
Joke ladies and gentlemen although said with TIC.

charly

"To become competent in governing others, we must first learn to govern ourselves"
Waite Phillips

Tulsa World reports: At Muskogee town hall, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., called President Obama a friend but cautioned that he was “perilously close” to meeting the Constitutional standard for impeachment.

I heard. The clip on the radio... He was dancing better than Fred Astaire... No one, I repeat.... No one in Washington has the intestinal fortitude to try it. They would be vilified from the word go. It's not worth the media flogging they would take.